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This story was originally published on the Bangor Daily News website on May 22, 2017, as found here. By Lauren Abbate, BDN Staff DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — The 175 acres of forest and farmland that’s home to Leaves and Blooms Greenhouse on Route 15 has been in Jackie Robinson’s family for four generations. But because of the [...]

This story was originally published July 24, 2017 on the Bangor Daily News website, as seen here. By Lauren Abbate, BDN Staff For the last four summers, Tim Crider has driven a bus route throughout several Bangor neighborhoods around lunchtime for the Bangor Housing Authority. On a recent muggy Monday, Crider drove out of the housing authority’s [...]

When many people think of what a "Maine" city is , Portland's waterfront cobblestone streets and bustling downtown are usually the first images their mind conjures. And for much recent history, it is certainly true that Portland has been the metropolitan beacon for the state of Maine. However, 130 miles north on Interstate 95, Maine's [...]

University of Maine Graduate Student, Amy Kireta, never lost her infatuation with the Great Lakes when she moved to the East Coast. Now, in her graduate thesis, Kireta is investigating the effects of climate change on the lakes that she and the rest the of the Heartland hold dear. Through microscopically observing a type of [...]

With the passage and progression of Title IX over the last forty years, serious strides of have been made for the inclusion and equal treatment of female athletes. Yet, despite being allowed to participate in the same sports, women are held to a different standard during game play - no tackling, no hitting, no breaking [...]

The 2014 election season is underway and voters in the greater Bangor area are taking to sidewalks and street corners to show their political allegiances and advocate for the candidate of their choice. With a gubernatorial race, one open seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, an open U.S. Senate seat, and numerous state legislature [...]

The alarm goes off, it's 8 A.M - the rest of the world has started it's day already and now it's time for me to catch up. There is no daily publication awaiting me on my front steps, but I don't have to leave bed to check the Twitter-verse. News slugs from The New York [...]

New Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules unveiled this week effectively marked an end to the 25 five year old net neutrality standards that have kept the Internet fair, open, and accessible to everyone. These new rules will allow major content producers such as Google or Netflix to pay service providers like Comcast or Time Warner [...]

Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, is calling it quits after a tumultuous 6-months heading the roll out of the Affordable Care Act's Healthcare.Gov website. Sebelius has served as HHS Secretary for five years but has faced heavy scrutiny since the launch of Healthcare.Gov in October. The site, which sets up the marketplace for [...]

President George W. Bush is making headlines again and it has nothing to do with politics, at least not politics in the form you would expect them to be... The former president will debut his "Art of Leadership: A President's Personal Diplomacy" exhibit, a series of portraits he painted depicting fellow world [...]